The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

Style is only the frame to hold your thoughts. It is like the sash of a window; if heavy, it will obscure the light.

How painful to give a gift to any person of sensibility, or of equality! It is next worst to receiving one

Nature is not always tricked in holiday attire, but the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic of the nymphs, is overspread with melancholy today. Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

Greatness is a property for which no man gets credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.

A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; - read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.

To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty.